Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees

This podcast is where transracial adoptees come and share their stories.

Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees is a society podcast hosted by Nathan Choi, with 38 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Nathan Choi hosts Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees, a society show with 38 episodes published.

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  Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees

  Color Shift: Benjamin

  Sep 27, 20261h 2m

  In this episode of Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees , I sit down with Benjamin, a Brazilian adoptee raised in Australia, to talk about identity, family, fatherhood, and the power of finding community. Benjamin shares what it was like growing up without seeing many people who looked like him and how being adopted has shaped the way he approaches being a father. He also tells the remarkable story of how a simple bowl of cereal unexpectedly led him to finding members of his biological family. We talk about the complicated emotions that came with learning that his birth mother had already passed away and what it means to find answers when some questions can no longer be asked. We close by discussing the importance of adoptee community and how Benjamin’s life changed after connecting with ICAV (InterCountry Adoptee Voices)—finally finding spaces where others understood experiences he had carried for years. ICAV facebook group Men's group for Adoptees of South America Support the show Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/color_shift_tra?igsh=em5ka3hkMXJxODA5 TicTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@colorshifttransra?_t=ZP-8wOIvdcK7ah&_r=1 Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads If you are interested in supporting this podcast please go to the listener support page: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2502012/support If you are a transracial adoptee and want to share your story email me at: Color.Shift.Pod@gmail.com

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  Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees

  Color Shift: Rose

  Sep 13, 202647 min

  In this episode of Color Shift , Nathan sits down with Rose, a Chinese adoptee who grew up in Alaska and Canada, to talk about identity, isolation, belonging, and what can change when you finally find yourself in a place where you don't stand out. Rose reflects on growing up in predominantly white environments and how that shaped her experience as a transracial adoptee. She shares what it was like to later move to the San Francisco Bay Area and, for the first time, experience being surrounded by people who looked like her. That shift—from feeling isolated and visibly different to being part of the majority—became an unexpectedly healing part of her adoptee journey. She also talks about the role music has played throughout her life, beginning with violin lessons that sometimes required 10-hour round trips and eventually leading to an opportunity few musicians ever experience: performing with Bad Bunny during the Super Bowl. Rose shares what it was like keeping that experience secret and finally being able to reveal that she had been part of one of the world's biggest performances. Rose's story explores something many transracial adoptees understand: how much our surroundings can influence the way we see ourselves, and what can happen when we finally experience a sense of cultural and racial belonging we didn't have growing up. Rose's Instagram Support the show Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/color_shift_tra?igsh=em5ka3hkMXJxODA5 TicTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@colorshifttransra?_t=ZP-8wOIvdcK7ah&_r=1 Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads If you are interested in supporting this podcast please go to the listener support page: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2502012/support If you are a transracial adoptee and want to share your story email me at: Color.Shift.Pod@gmail.com

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  Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees

  Color Shift: Sun Mee

  Aug 30, 202642 min

  In this episode of Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees , Nathan sits down with Sun Mee, a Korean adoptee raised in a white German family in a small town in southern Germany. Adopted from South Korea at 3½ years old with little information about her biological family, Sun Mee learned early how to adapt. She disconnected from her Korean roots, pushed down difficult emotions, and embraced the role of the “grateful” and well-adjusted adoptee. But beneath the surface was a deeper sense of disconnection and questions about identity and belonging that eventually became impossible to ignore. Sun Mee shares the identity rupture she experienced at 18, her decision to begin searching for her biological family, and the complicated emotions surrounding DNA testing and her return trips to Korea—experiences that brought moments of recognition alongside feelings of alienation. We also explore a different side of adoptee healing: the body. Sun Mee discusses how somatic healing helped her reconnect with emotions she had spent years suppressing and ultimately changed the way she understood belonging—not simply as something to find in a country, culture, family, or community, but as something that can also be cultivated within ourselves. That journey eventually led Sun Mee to found NUMARU, a holistic emotional wellbeing platform and international community for BIPOC adoptees. Through NUMARU, she works to create spaces where adoptees can process their emotions, make peace with the complexity of their stories, and explore what it means to belong on their own terms. This is a conversation about adaptation, identity, the body, returning to Korea, and the complicated work of finding home—both within ourselves and with one another. Link to Sun Mee's website: Numaru Follow Sun Mee's work on Instagram Support the show Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/color_shift_tra?igsh=em5ka3hkMXJxODA5 TicTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@colorshifttransra?_t=ZP-8wOIvdcK7ah&_r=1 Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads If you are interested in supporting this podcast please go to the listener support page: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2502012/support If you are a transracial adoptee and want to share your story email me at: transracialadoptionstories@gmail.com

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  Color Shift: Sara G

  Aug 16, 202644 min

  In this episode of Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees , Nathan sits down with Sara G., a Mexican adoptee whose story began within the foster care system. Sara shares what it was like navigating foster care and adoption while also growing up separated from parts of her culture and identity. Her experiences eventually helped shape the path she chose as an adult: becoming a social worker and working within a system she once experienced from the other side. Together, Nathan and Sara explore the complicated intersection of lived experience and professional work. What does it mean to support children and families when you know firsthand what it feels like to be the child in the system? And how does being an adoptee influence the way you see the work differently from those who only know it professionally? Sara's story offers a perspective that is both personal and professional—one that challenges us to think about foster care and adoption not simply as systems designed to help children, but through the eyes of the people who actually lived through them. Follow Sara on her Instagram! Support the show Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/color_shift_tra?igsh=em5ka3hkMXJxODA5 TicTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@colorshifttransra?_t=ZP-8wOIvdcK7ah&_r=1 Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads If you are interested in supporting this podcast please go to the listener support page: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2502012/support If you are a transracial adoptee and want to share your story email me at: transracialadoptionstories@gmail.com

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  Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees

  Color Shift: August

  Aug 2, 202649 min

  In this episode of Color Shift: Transracial Adoptees , Nathan sits down with August, a Chinese adoptee raised in rural Central Pennsylvania, for an honest conversation about identity, belonging, and what it means to finally begin seeing your adoption story through a new lens. August shares how the COVID-19 pandemic became a turning point in his life—his own "coming out of the fog" moment—as he began unpacking the ways adoption, race, and identity had shaped him. He also reflects on his journey as a queer adoptee, exploring how different parts of his identity intersect and influence one another. The conversation also highlights August's involvement with Through a Different Lens (TADL) , where he has helped create space for adoptee voices, community, and authentic storytelling. This episode is a thoughtful exploration of identity, self-discovery, and the power of finding community with others who understand the adoptee experience. August's adoption related Instagram: Here Support the show Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/color_shift_tra?igsh=em5ka3hkMXJxODA5 TicTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@colorshifttransra?_t=ZP-8wOIvdcK7ah&_r=1 Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads If you are interested in supporting this podcast please go to the listener support page: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2502012/support If you are a transracial adoptee and want to share your story email me at: transracialadoptionstories@gmail.com

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